• Figures from the council said Surrey had less than four in a hundred young people classified as Neet, compared with the national average of more than six in a hundred.

    BBC: Surrey County Council targets firms in apprentice drive

  • Or to the designs of an ancient plot set in motion exactly four hundred years ago in the library of the King of Bohemia.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Borges and the Eternal Orangutans'

  • In the last thirty days before the election, Whitaker and Baxter advertised in four hundred newspapers and on five hundred billboards.

    NEWYORKER: The Lie Factory

  • By December, 2008, the Sterling partners had about four hundred million dollars in Sterling Stamos accounts and about five hundred and fifty million with Madoff.

    NEWYORKER: Madoff��s Curveball

  • Four hundred houses in east Lancashire are still without heating following a power cut on Tuesday.

    BBC: No heating for 400 Shear Brow homes after power cut

  • Currently, Variety Wholesalers owns several chains of discount stores, among them Roses, Maxway, Super 10, and Bargain Town, amounting to more than four hundred outlets in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions.

    NEWYORKER: State for Sale

  • He found that between January of 2002 and June of 2008 some nine hundred people in the two buildings accounted for more than four thousand hospital visits and about two hundred million dollars in health-care bills.

    NEWYORKER: The Hot Spotters

  • Martha's blog has been read by almost eight million people in four months, while her Brazilian counterpart's page has attracted over two hundred thousand followers in less than four weeks.

    BBC: Scotland

  • We must act, knowing that today's victories will be only partial, and that it will be up to those who stand here in four years, and forty years, and four hundred years hence to advance the timeless spirit once conferred to us in a spare Philadelphia hall.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • The Army claims to have destroyed more than four hundred methamphetamine labs in the region.

    NEWYORKER: Silver or Lead

  • Four hundred other homes in the area will be demolished as part of Liverpool City Council's regeneration plans.

    BBC: Madryn Street

  • He took money perhaps as much as one million four hundred thousand dollars in cash and diamonds but piling up treasure seems not to have been his primary motivation, either.

    NEWYORKER: Double Lives

  • The OfficeTeam report is based on responses from over one-thousand senior executives at mid-to-large sized companies, along with replies from more than four-hundred workers employed in office environments.

    FORBES: March Madness Employee Productivity Problem Is Overstated, Yet Influences Corporate Change

  • The Australian left-hander, who began his English county career a decade ago at Sussex, added 28 to his overnight 75 to lodge his second Championship hundred in four innings.

    BBC: Nash denies Durham first victory

  • Four hundred primary schools in England deemed to be the weakest are to be turned into academies in a bid to drive up standards, the prime minister has announced.

    BBC: writing

  • It was only sixty-four pages, but it sold a hundred and fifty thousand copies in four months.

    NEWYORKER: The Lie Factory

  • If he manages to win this year, it is likely to be by less than that, which would make him the first President in a hundred and twenty-four years to win a second term by a smaller margin than in his initial election.

    NEWYORKER: The Second Term

  • Utopias (incidentally the coined word Utopia doesn't mean "a good place, " it means merely "a non- existent place") have been common in the literature of the past three or four hundred years, but the "favourable" ones are invariably unappetising, and usually lacking in vitality as well.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'All Art Is Propaganda'

  • For American prisoners, huge numbers of whom are serving sentences much longer than those given for similar crimes anywhere else in the civilized world Texas alone has sentenced more than four hundred teen-agers to life imprisonment time becomes in every sense this thing you serve.

    NEWYORKER: The Caging of America

  • Mr. KEITH LAMBERT (Mayor, Rifle, Colorado): Four thousand two hundred new residential units in a town of 9, 000.

    NPR: Cashing In on Economic Downturn

  • In a squat you could get somebody coming round at three in the morning with four or five hundred pounds worth of crack, saying have a pipe.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Addicts back scheme that saves

  • Two hundred twenty four people died in those blasts.

    CNN: Judge orders separate trial for one embassy bombing defendant

  • The first two days of the festival this year were held in the intricate 15th-20th century red sandstone Mehrangarh Fort, one of the largest in India, which looms four hundred feet above the blue city of Jodhpur.

    FORBES: Plan Now: A Royal Festival In India That You Shouldn't Miss

  • At least four hundred and fifty residents own shares in the onshore turbines, and a roughly equal number own shares in those offshore.

    NEWYORKER: The Island in the Wind

  • Four hundred thousand young pilgrims have arrived in Cologne so far.

    NPR: Pope Arrives in Cologne to Address World Youth Day

  • One patient had three hundred and twenty-four admissions in five years.

    NEWYORKER: The Hot Spotters

  • Brian, James, and Mark selected a team of two dozen SEALs from Red Squadron and told them to report to a densely forested site in North Carolina for a training exercise on April 10th. (Red Squadron is one of four squadrons in DEVGRU, which has about three hundred operators in all.) None of the SEALs, besides James and Mark, were aware of the C.

    NEWYORKER: Getting Bin Laden

  • In 1999, after seven prisoners tried to escape from Huntsville, Willingham and four hundred and fifty-nine other inmates on death row were moved to a more secure facility, in Livingston, Texas.

    NEWYORKER: Trial by Fire

  • Mine was one of four licensed premises in a scattered district of three-hundred-odd souls.

    NEWYORKER: Fjord of Killary

  • At a hundred factories in 28 countries on four continents, Flextronics churns out half a million products daily--printers for Hewlett-Packard, cell phones for Ericsson and handhelds for Palm.

    FORBES: The Detour Economy

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